I see there are still people online railing on about how awful younger or older generations are. I don't know why people do it, it's just seems to me like any other form of bigotry & makes people look ignorant, disrespectful and narrow-minded.
Unsure whether you will feel better with the story "there's no conspiracy to screw youth, this is just the result of shifts in impersonal economic parameters only incidentally correlated to age cohorts" But that's probably closer to an accurate description of the world here :/
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Not really, we have/had the ability to adapt to those economic parameters through policy. But blaming a generation for certain ideological shifts that have taken place among our political institutions & intelligentsia over the past few decades is counterproductive
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im a professional economist ama about the limits of policy :/
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Ah, my apologies. Basically I’ve always believed that 1) the financial crisis could have been averted had we not deregulated the OTC derivative market in 2000 and 2) funding higher education to keep pace with the boom in demand since the late 60s would have kept at least some 1/
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downward pressure on income inequality. Are these assumptions off-base? 2/
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Every millennial who I’ve seen complain about Boomers has always mentioned how they “crashed the economy” and left behind a dried up job market for us
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(This is just from my experience tho, so I could just be baselessly extrapolating lol)
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Hey--sorry for slow response, had to step away. Will answer in as soon as stationary. Deserves better than a shitpost :)
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